[Italian] How to cook Italian braised rabbit (coniglio bianco)

Ingredients

• 2–4 cottontails, 2–3 snowshoe hares or 2 domestic rabbits (see Note)
• 80 ml (⅓ cup) olive oil
• 1 onion, sliced root to stalk
• 125 ml (½ cup) white wine or vermouth
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 6 garlic cloves, roasted
• salt, to season
• 10–20 green olives, pitted, halved
• ¼ cup  chopped parsley leaves
• mashed potatoes, polenta or rice, to serve

• 2 bay leaves
• ½ tsp fennel seeds
• 1 tsp coriander seeds
• 10 juniper berries, crushed (optional)
• 1 tsp cracked black peppercorns
• salt, to season

Directions